grasswire
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:00 PM
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We need to make a new word for those who have kept the truth from the people. |
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I'm speaking of the betrayals of the past fifty years particularly. Not just those who were in positions of power, but those who actively worked with/for them. Pundits. Civil service employees. Bureaucrats. Clergy. Academics.
In prior eras, words were invented. Quisling. Wikipedia says the following about the term quisling:
"The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 15 April 1940, entitled "Quislings everywhere" after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany after it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself. The editorial asserted: "To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor...they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Actually it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous."
We need a word that defines the particular stench of the collaborateurs of our era, to be turned into a noun to be used in perpetuity.
We also need some songs for children to memorialize the evil. Just as "Ring around the Rosy" was written about the Great Plague. We need songs about the evil people. I'm sure someone could write a ditty about Dr. Condi.
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:01 PM
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1. LIAR still works for me. |
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:05 PM
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4. Me too. Plain, simple and to the point with no |
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way the meaning can be changed by spin. Liar, liar and LIAR!
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:07 PM
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5. When I'm really hot MOTHERFUCKING LIAR works too. |
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:24 PM
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10. That works. Criminal is good, too. nt |
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:23 AM
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20. First thing that came to my mind. |
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It works with an uneducated public that is unfamiliar with other terminology.
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:02 PM
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grasswire
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:28 PM
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11. I like this line of thought... |
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..it's in the spirit of the term Quisling.
How about Rehnquist?
Who has been the biggest betrayer?
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:05 PM
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3. Muzzlers - they try to muzzle the whistleblowers n/t |
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:10 PM
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7. And they muzzle the truth. |
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:32 PM
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grasswire
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:33 PM
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15. How about muzzlethugs? n/t |
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Brainstorm, peeps, brainstorm.
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:10 PM
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6. Obfiscators aka Muddies |
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They lie to muddy the waters...helps some/other lies slip by unseen.
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:16 PM
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:18 PM
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President Dubya
President Dubya had a cabinet
ee i ee i oh
and in that cabinet he had a security adviser
ee i ee i oh
with a missed clue here and a missed clue there
here a missed clue there a missed clue everywhere a missed clue
President Dubya had a cabinet
ee i ee i oh
Feel free to add more lyrics, I left "with a lie lie here and a lie lie there" open for others to work with
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:30 PM
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grasswire
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:30 PM
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13. okay I can do this too |
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President Dubya had a chair EIEIO He thought the weapons were under there EIEIO With a bomb bomb here And a mine mine there Here a bomb there a mine Everywhere a laugh laugh
Okay I'm stuck
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Tue Dec-14-10 10:34 PM
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There once was a suckezoid named Floyd, He stole money from people he employed, He spent all the cash electing Republican trash, So corporate taxes they all could avoid.
Burma Shave
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:21 AM
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19. Quisling was actually a mans name, who colluded with the nazis |
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-10 10:22 AM by HillbillyBob
If I recall he was an official of the Norwegian or Finnish govt. There I go shooting my mouth off before finishing reading..
We should have nice marketable names for these folk I m stuck at traitors..
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Wed Dec-15-10 10:24 AM
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21. "Russerts" or "Blitzers" might be a good choice. nt |
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Wed Dec-15-10 05:24 PM
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22. How about "shrubbers"??? |
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George the elder's nickname when he was a U.S. Congressman was "Rubbers" because he was so high on eugenics and population control.
So he could be Rubbers the Shrubber.
Of course George W. was the ultimate Shrubber, and named "Shrub" by Molly Ivins.
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